www.directmeasure.com

I submitted my site on 2/17, no listing yet. I believe I tried category: "Business: Industrial Goods and Services: Calibration and Testing"

Could someone offer help regarding, category, things I've overlooked, what I may be doing wrong, problems with site, etc.

Thanks ... ghovis

Well the first thing you are doing wrong is posting in the wrong forum. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> This post should have been made in the Site Submission Staus forum. Don't worry though, I expect one of our admins will move it over at some point.

The second thing you're doing wrong is not giving us a clickable link to make it easy for us to check. Since I'm waiting for the kids to go to bed and I have time on my hands, I've posted one for you: Business/Industrial_Goods_and_Services/Calibration_and_Testing/.

The next thing you're doing wrong is simply being in the calibration and testing business I'm afraid. There is a suprisingly large number of submissions waiting for attention in that category (several hundred), so you will have to be patient and leave time for someone to get round to them.

And finally, you only submitted a month ago. It's not uncommon to have several months delay, especially in categories that, like this one, have a lot of submissions and need a degree of knowledge to work in. Sorry.

Thanks for your help dfy. Sorry for the newbie blunders.

There are actually several categories where this fits. Should I try to re-submit in a less busy category, or is there a penalty for that?

&gt;&gt; Sorry for the newbie blunders &lt;&lt;

No problems. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" alt="" />


&gt;&gt; There are actually several categories where this fits. Should I try to re-submit in a less busy category, or is there a penalty for that? &lt;&lt;

The submission guidelines that you should have read when you submitted your site say that you should "choose the one best category" to submit to. If you submit to a category that isn't the most suitable, it will sit for ages in a queue until an editor finds it, realises it doesn't fit, and moves it off to another category to sit in the queue again. If the category you submitted to is the best one for your site, leave it there.

Thanks again for your time dfy. I'll be patient.

Hello,

I inquired a month ago about my site:
www.directmeasure.com

I believe it was posted to:
Business/Industrial_Goods_and_Services/Calibration_and_Testing/ .

Would it be possible to verify that I am indeed in waiting in this category (I'm not absolutely sure this is where it is), and what the present backlog is.

Thanks ... ghovis

Your submission of February 17th is waiting for in this category, which is backlogged with hundreds of submissions. Obviously there is a lack of editors in this part of the directory.

Thanks for the quick response. I sort of asked this question before, but let me clarify a bit. Understanding the submission guidelines, there is a lot of overlap in the listings found in the category I submitted to:

Business/Industrial_Goods_and_Services/Calibration_and_Testing/

and a similar category:

Science/Technology/Quality_Engineering/Nondestructive_Testing/

We fit just as well in either. Would it be (1)possible and (2) beneficial from a backlog standpoint to resubmit in the latter? Again thanks ... ghovis

Would it be (1)possible and (2) beneficial from a backlog standpoint to resubmit in the latter?

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You should submit to the one category that best fits your site, not the one with the lesser backlog. I'd say the Business one is the best one for you so I'd recommend you don't resubmit.